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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Roko Ului Mara: The only threat to Fiji now is the military threat

Revealing answers from Roko Ului Mara in this interview with Radio New Zealand's 9 to Noon.

In it he says he can see now the 2006 coup was wrong but he, like others, felt it was right at the time.

"I believed in what we set out to do. I believed the cause was noble, although the way we conducted it was wrong. I believed that we needed a clean-up campaign to remove corruption that was in politics and business.

"I believed that racist laws that were about to be introduced by the SDL government would be a disaster for Fiji. I still believe those things."

Mara also talks about the loss of faith senior officers came to have in Frank Bainimarama and his leadership and how he allowed Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum to shape and influence the direction the illegal government was going.

Mara's information confirms what Coupfourpointifve has been reporting for some time. As recent as March this year, we were contacted by a senior officer who wanted out and who revealed then that Bainimarama had lost the plot - and support.

Mara says it started to happen in 2008. Bainimarama changed about then and became more interested in his own position and took to ignoring the Military Council, preferring to listen to Khaiyum instead, who he says was out to dislodge the Council.

Asked why it took him so long to break away, Mara says he was hoping things would change but was forced to realise last year that Bainimarama was no longer interested in what his senior officers had to say.

Quote: "We were of no use to him."

As reported previously by Coupfourpointfive, Mara says Bainimarama has lost the loyalty of the troops and he keeps himself surrounded by 50 guards and a select few who do his dirty work.

Quote: "The only threat to Fiji now is the military threat. There's no outside threat."

Mara doesn't discount troops turning on Bainimarama but stopped short of saying it would definitely happen, saying going on previous trends it has been known to.

He denied participating in any of the abuse of citizens at QEB, saying he ran the third infantry but Bainimarama bypassed him, going straight to the men himself to get them to do things.

The key to all this is the GCC reconvening and appointing a Legitimate President and Vice President and Neutral Prime Minister and Cabinet.The 1st. thing they must do is remove Frank as Commander and have the Cabinet approve a new Commander of the Military.It could all be done electronically and in secret from various locations around Viti, no need to congregate in one place and put yourselves in the firing line of Frank's thugs.

Are there any Chiefs from the GCC who are courageous enough to take this line of action ?At least it would all be Legitimate and then the Soldiers can follow Legal Orders and will know exactly where they stand.

OK! So there's no sacking/takeover as reported earlier and all the excitement/expectations have now fizzled out completely. What next? Lets get back to the fisherman and kerekere him that we are still waiting for the big tuna news he promised and not the qitawa weve been served so far

People who organizing match for this Saturday, why cant they give us names and contacts. Is it because we be fooled and actual go there and get kicked around.

By the way C4.5, why are you putting the article that says that PM has rejected all claims about sacking President. You are usually very fast in putting all the negative comments against the government but when it comes to putting the facts why does it take up so much time.

Ratu, you have to do a little more! We have to deal with a deranged dictator who is manipulated by a hateful and devious Khaiyum. We have to convince the soldiers that there is no future in kissing Khaiyum's arse. But we need to know the truth about regimental funds, the killing of CRW soldiers on Bainimarama's orders, the epic stealing of government funds, the human rights abuses and the standing orders on how the RFMF will deal with a popular uprising. We need to know how the money is syphoned off by Khaiyum's aunty and we need to know what secret deals have been made to sell Fiji to the Chinese.

one important point we all are missing , Mara could not do anything when he was heading the most powerfull group in military -what now -nothing .Secondly , baini must have threaten Mara's wife if Mara spills anything , she and rest will be taken to task. Mara should not be scared by this and reveal all for ones , I believe many people will forgive him for his part but with lesser punishment.

For those of you swearing and criticising Roko Ului ...all you can do is talk. Yes Roko Ului has done wrong and has admitted it but least he is doing something to bring down the regime. All you other soldiers at QEB wake up and smell the roses and support him please. Otherwise you will end up in Naboro together with Bainimarama and Aiyaz.

Come on have the balls to stand up for the truth ...it's been 5 years....change your vukivuki please

With utter sadness, I must say that you are slowly losing the plot. You came out as THE SAVIOR to finally fulfill the dreams of thousands of Fijian people to remove the bloody regime and set the flowers of peace and democracy bloom.

People are aware of all the wrong doings and they are scared to come out. More than that there is no active leadership out there locally to believe in and follow. The leadership around and visible is the current government. There is no one seem to doing things. How can people rally behind and with who.

You need to do get going. You need to prove to NZ/AUS that people are behind you. If nothing is going to happen locally, then the only option is to get Aus or NZ to do something. It has to be done. There is no doubt about it. Someone has to get rid of this regime before it is too late and before people of Fiji realises it.

If things continue this way, mark my words......it will never happen again.

This is big test to both sides. Whoever wins this will be around for the next 10-20 years, unless PM or AG dies in an accident or naturally.

what do you want to do? If nothing is likely to happen, people certainly will forget about you and all your wrong doings will surface again. You will never be a hero and you will never get a chance.

President also seems like has done lot of damage to his brains with alcohol. It doesnt seem like he can think. Has to be after effects of alcohol.

As I said mark my word, another week goes by....Tevita Uluilakeba Mara will be another history. And it will not be a good one.

What are you waiting for? Still tired and trying to come to senses after a long journey in the sea??

Keep moving and get something done. Take this seriously. There will not be a chance. This is it. This has to be it.

Just do it.....as you yourself can see, even the comments on C4.5 slowly reducing...................C'mon get it going...............

Dams do not burst in one go. cracks and leaks appear one by one because of the build up of pressure.

Once it has reached a critical point, the whole dam then goes!

RU might just be another crack.....he may be the one that finally takes the dam to that oh so critical point.....I don't know.

But I do know that things are finally looking up for us, the suppressed and oppressed people of Fiji. Things are starting to move in the right direction for us. For once, the junta is being forced to operate in a zone where they are not comfortable....where they have no control....no influence....no ability to decisively determine outcomes! For once they are on the back-foot!

Of Course what Rt Ului has done is a BIG thing.Already NZ and Australia have changed their policies.They were just about to stop their sanctions as adviced by the Lowe Institute. Now they suddenly have to rethink because their sanctions is actually working.Their Intelligence was feeding them wrong information.So all you guys criticising Roko Ului, just back off a little bit please because he is actually doing damage to the Regime.

Sa rui levu ga na talanoa no action!!!So much talanoa that even my 1st key board gave up from all the pressure applied during all the unnecessary, non eventuating hype!

Ratu Ulukau has just joined our long line of bloggers.

Arewa! I agree with Ratu Ulukau that our best hope is an uprising from the ranks.My question to Ratu Ulukau, if he couldnt do, who can? This was only possible when real men ran the show..No chance now!!.

But glad the C4.5 has made progress this far...awesome avenue to release the frustrations ...but to make real progress, real work has to done on the ground...While Frank does his rounds meeting real people...what are we doing?

Frankly speaking, I think Bai and Aiyaz are making real progress with whatever endeavours they have in mind.More than enough to with stand all the ideas floated in c4.5

Awesome C4.5 but if we could only channel all of these hype to some concrete plans!!! Anything shot is "wishful thinking"

Qarase government were not rascist. They were setting up a law to protect Fijian lands from future foreign owners. Now you put the blame on that. You broke thenlaw where you could have taken it to court to challenge the qoliqoli legislation. See wot happens? A a Kadia now runs the country behind a Fijian man as his puppet n now you regret. But you have lost respects for the ppl already. Get ready to face justice n vakadaberi for the years to come in prison or at home.

What Roko Ului is doing could not have been done by many of us! AS someone has mentioned-the Lowe institute was party correct in its summing of the effects of santions against Fiji-what it failed to mention is the support or non-support of the people of Fiji to the Bainimarama cause? Now that we have Roko Ului many are rubbishing his statements-do you have a better source of the goings on in the Miliatry in Fiji or for that matter Bai and Khaiyums dealings? Some want to have their cake and eat it at the same time, warai beka ni raiwai, ra tai!Tagi tagiNoqu VanuaDrodro lagi Na kula vulaMai wai Sa tu ko KuraQavokavokaDelai ni uaMeu sa suaKi Vanua

Yalewa dina- Qarase was trying his best to get the indo-Fijian out of Fiji-that was the agenda. The advice was coming form the Lotu Waisele & Qaranivalu. Ask those who wre delivering the message to the Fijian land owners-Don't renew the leases. Just cut the crap & face up to what he did if anyone had a chance to make a change for Fiji & unit an already damadged country he could have but he was more influnced by the power hungry racist that would keep him in power!When you play the race cards like Pauline Hanson does it kinda works because it brings out the FEARS in us all not the TRUTH! Levu ga a dai lailai a jina-as our Lau mates say!

March Organizer.Good idea! However 1000 people will be difficult for you to control on your own. There are security issues, crowd control etc etc. My officers and I at QEB will be only too willing to help out however we need your name and contact to discuss this over coffee at the barracks. Please let us know thru this site

@ Anon 5:45pm u must b mad we have the courts to go to if we have grieverance over a new law not bloody short cut with the gun on the neck of goverment of the day. The race card was your sneaky way of getting in. See the mess now u created n your thugs. Too much dokadoka that's why sa muri yani na madua. Kania sara na nomu da do u sa Mai binia tu!!!!

Get a Kaivalagi to lead us. Kaivitis will fall to his feet and kiss it as if it is the Son of God himself.

Kaivitis have proven over and over they just cannot lead this country. They have not evolved as much as the others.

And for everyone's sake, enough talk about the Great Council of Thieves (GCC). They have no place in modern Fiji.

GCC is fat lazy fucks, blood-sucking their subjects based on a perceived birth-right.

As for Ului, time will tell, let a few weeks pass, status quo will remain. Only the desparate like the majority of this board pin their hopes on a lamusona. Left his family behind to face the music. He knew he cannot survive even ONE round around QEB. Bloody pufta.

Some idiot is organising a march, but doesnt want to name himself. Proving my point, he also thinks Kaivitis are idiot enough to blindly congregate at a venue. Bhaini fires a shot, everyone runs like scared chicken.

Might have been better to resign before charges were laid...then, go to Tonga and " tell the truth" not wait until the payroll was cut.. What the people need is transparency (was the word of the month in 2006) The Comm and his cabinet should make public their fiscal histories from 2006 till now audited by an independent. Can you imagine hahahahahahaha . Fiji has never, even under a democratically elected government, come near to realizing her potential, and with much regret I fear she never will Noqu Vanua

here is a simple and safe idea. Everyone to wear flower behind your ear this weekend starting tomorrow afternoon 4.50pm. This will show without need to talk that you are for peace and change of the current regime.Let's GO FIJI. Make this change happen.

WE NEED FIJI PEOPLE TO MARCH ON THE STREET.THAN WE CAN GET AUSS/NZ/USA ARMIES TO SUPPORT US TO GET RID OF AG TALIBAN/BAI.LOOK AT LIBYA/ARAB WORLD.THE PRESIDENT CAN ASK AUSS/NZ/USA FOR SUPPORT.LET PUT A STOP TO COUP IN FIJI.UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.GOD BLESS FIJI

please do not jump at praising Roko Ului too quick. Yes, thank him for coming out with the truth but we, as usual, are always so quick to change our minds about a person without reserve., and yet we do not see the larger picture and then next we know we're in the pitts again 5years later.

Roko Ului, many thinks you should be commended for your honesty, but it just seems all too fishy this business about you going to Tonga, i strongly believe you and your family had already planned this and that you would've anticipated both outcomes- this one and a more favourable one.

In saying that, i find it hard to believe that youre doing this for the people, as you mentioned you started doubting Frank in 2008, its 3years later now and you're just deciding to jump ship.(any right-minded soldier could see that Frank is not a leader, obviously not even a military leader)and to have your brother-in-law put frank as commander in the first place is a big question mark on its own. (only your family can answer that)

Your family's been in politics for too long that im sure you all would've anticipated how things have turned out today, from the time Frank started hitting out at the Qarase Govt.

I do not praise you for jumping ship, and i do not commend you for telling us the truth, but you do owe it to the people of fiji.

I do not trust your motive, however, with your supposed honesty that's on a roll now, hopefully it will help the people get the country back.

RE: Taukei Youth @ 11:22 AM. Good to see our youth trying to be involved and interested in how our country is run. You are to be commended and, I agree, Mara owes the truth to us - but we don't owe him anything, certainly not our respect. John Galt

Most Fijians have always talked about the corruption in past Fijian governments from the Mara, Rabuka, and Qarase years which unfortuntaley some Fijian chiefs also involved themselves in for theirs and their family self gain. They forget about the people and begin to accumulate wealth and riches for themselves in Fiji and abroad. Root of this corruption was so deep and inbedded like a bad cancer. The people of the Vanua have now spoken of the many inroads Frank has brought to their everyday lives. Things promised by past government but never delivered generations after generations.Drastic times call for drastic measures. Let Frank finish the clean up campaign first and then we can decide at the elections.You will see the people will vote him back in.

Let me see...If there was a coup in 2000 due to your dads decision in trying to sell Fiji as rumuour goes, than 2006, you took part in it and now you are trying to twist what you had planned with them You are talking after you got charged and you couldn't say that before you got charged. I think you are trying to find your way out and not the whole country because we had too many coups...We just have to realise where they are all from...So I would rather vote for someone new than the same family....

So after you got charged than you want to talk...before that, you were in the paper happy nd all...so someone suspects you did something than you want to twist what you started.....I really don't trust you at all...